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Canal Robberies Continue
• Victim suspects dope smokers
Saturday,
May 15, 2010
Mike on NW 69th Avenue is a recent victim in the rash of burglaries along the one-mile canal in Margate. Burglars came through the kitchen window, said Mike, took two TVs and $300 in cash from a dresser, almost as if they knew where to look, he said.
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Mike lives on the one-mile canal near Margate’s water department off 66 Terrace, across from homes burglarized in recent months on the canal’s west side.
Similar to earlier burglaries taking place on NW 69th Terrace behind the firehouse on Rock Island Road, Mike’s house was robbed in broad daylight with nobody home. Cash and electronics were the take.
Mike pointed MargateNews.net to a shack directly across the canal from his house, where he says a group of four or five teens smoke dope and go in and out all day.
“They’re the only ones that could know I had a big screen in the backroom,” Mike said. They’re constantly eyeing my house and know when I’m not home.”
Mike says the finesse with which the group climbs through the small side window in the shack adds suspicion to the likelihood that they robbed him.
“They were stealth,” he said. "They came in through the kitchen window, didn’t even disturb the colander in the sink and left everything intact…a very neat job.”
Margate police have boosted police presence in problem neighborhoods along the canal and have distributed pamphlets heightening resident awareness of robberies.
Neighbors told MargateNews.net they think burglars live in the area and stake out homes carefully before robbing them.
In two cases, neighbors may have failed to subvert robberies.
Mike's neighbor from across the canal told him after the fact that he thought something was wrong when he saw the blinds down in the back of Mike’s house.
“I never have my blinds down,” said Mike.
Similarly, a neighbor to victim Brian Kinsey, robbed recently on NW69th Avenue of sports memorabilia, antique guns and his wife's wedding ring, told another neighbor about a suspicious white van in Kinsey’s driveway, but failed to call police.
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If you see something suspicious at a neighbor’s house, or you think they may be getting robbed, call Margate Police or dial emergency.
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